How Queen created a work of art

He is 44 years old, lasts 5:55 minutes and is a mixture of ballad, opera and hard rock.

How did this song come about and become a hit?

At almost 6 minutes long and with an opera section in the middle, it defied the rules of the music industry at the time.

It topped the UK music charts when it was released and stayed there for nine weeks.

The theme song was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales in August 1975.

The voices of May, Mercury and Taylor are the ones that appear in "Bohemian Rhapsody", even in the opera parts.

It took the musicians three weeks to record the entire song and rehearsed their vocal parts continuously for 10 to 12 hours a day.

When the album was finished, the band had to choose a single to sell the album. And at 6 minutes, Bohemian Rhapsody was a very risky bet.

Manager John Reid showed the song to a couple of acquaintances to get their opinion.

One of them was the British musician Elton John. "They are very crazy," was his reply.

Despite various criticisms, they chose it anyway and "Bohemian Rhapsody" began to play on the radio.

The problem started when they realized they couldn't play "Bohemian Rhapsody" live. So they made a video.

It only took them 4 hours to record it and in November 1975 it was already on the air in what represented a unique moment in the history of music, the video made Queen and Freddie Mercury himself household names. And global fame came immediately, in fact the song did not become as successful in the United States as in the United Kingdom and other European countries.

The song that dethroned "Bohemian Rhapsody" from the podium of the European charts was "Mamma mía", by the Swedish group ABBA.

In 1992, the year after the death of Freddie Mercury, the members of the band re-recorded the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" and predictably returned to place first in the rankings, the song also appeared in the American film Wayne's World in 1992 and in the theatrical musical We Will Rock you, which premiered in 2002 and ran for several seasons in Europe, North America, and Africa.

And in October 2018, "Bohemian Rhapsody", the film about the life of Freddie Mercury and Queen, was released.

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